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🗓️ 21 January 2025
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0:00.0 | Are you a smart booker or a silly booker? |
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0:42.4 | Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine. |
0:52.0 | Saka Joua is remembered in US history as the Shoshone woman who acted as interpreter to the Lewis and Clark expedition, the early 19th century mission to chart territory in the American West after the Louisiana purchase. |
0:59.5 | But what impact did Sakerjewa's contributions have on the success of this eventful journey? |
1:05.9 | How did her presence influence interactions with the various Native American people that the |
1:11.1 | expedition party encountered? And how has her legacy been interpreted and commemorated in the |
1:17.4 | years since? Speaking to Rebecca Franks for today's Life of the Week episode, Stephanie |
1:22.9 | Ambrose Tubbs delves into the life of Sacchargeia, from what we know about her early years to what her story can reveal about broader cultural attitudes towards indigenous people in American history. |
1:35.3 | In this episode of Life of the Week, we're heading off into the North American wilderness with Saka Jua, a fascinating figure from history. |
1:43.3 | And our expert has spent her lifetime |
1:45.6 | walking or paddling in her footsteps. So welcome to the History Extra podcast, Stephanie. |
1:51.4 | Before we launch in, can you give us the basics? Who was Saka Jua? Yes, I can. And thank you so much |
1:58.5 | for having me. She was a Native American young woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark over their journey from her village in what is now North Dakota all the way to the Pacific Coast. |
2:12.5 | And she was approximately 15 or 16 at the time, and she carried her young son on her back. She was not |
2:20.1 | the guide that we sometimes think of her. A lot of the statues of her are of her pointing west. |
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